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What Does It Take to Be A Leader?

"It’s your belief and your trust and your confidence in what you know and what you can do with that knowledge that I think is important to keep in the conversation," — Julie Kent, artistic director of the Washington Ballet, Women Rule podcast guest.

The Women Rule podcast, released every Wednesday, takes an intimate look at the experiences of professional women and their paths to success. Led by Playbook co-author Anna Palmer, the Women Rule podcast tells the personal stories of successful women across the United States. Asking how they made it, the challenges and opportunities they faced along the way, the lessons they’ve learned, the insights they’ve gained and what advice would they would give a woman looking to lead.

RECENT EPISODES

Seema Verma: ‘This wouldn’t even be a discussion if you were a man’

The head of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services administers the health care plans of 130 million Americans and oversees around 26 percent of the federal budget. It's a big job. And for Seema Verma, it's one that requires a complicated balancing act with her family back in Indiana, described in this week's episode of the Women Rule podcast.

Justina Machado & Gloria Calderón Kellett

The star and showrunner of Netflix’s "One Day At a Time" — one of Hollywood's few series starring and led by women of color — talk Hollywood, sexism and the stereotypes they’re tired of hearing about Latinas.

NYC first lady Chirlane McCray on life as an introvert in the public eye

In this week's episode of the Women Rule podcast, New York City's first lady joins to talk about ending the stigma around mental health, what it was like being the only black student in her schools growing up, whether her husband (NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio) will run for president — and why she's thinking about running for office herself.

Heather Wilson on breaking the glass ceiling in national security

Years before Heather Wilson was secretary of the Air Force or a member of Congress, she was a student in just the third class in Air Force Academy history that admitted women. In this week of the Women Rule podcast, She talks with us about how the national security world has changed for women over her career, the many different hats she's worn, and what it's like to be mentioned as potentially the first woman to become secretary of Defense.

Dayton Mayor Nan Whaley on how democrats can win the Midwest

In this episode of the Women Rule podcast, Nan Whaley, the democratic mayor of Dayton, explains how the party can win in the industrial midwest in 2020, and why she's hoping Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) will get in the race for president.